The Clinical Cost of “Purity”: How Spiritual Abuse Rewires the Developing Brain

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They say the church is a hospital for the broken. But what happens when the prescribed theology is the exact thing causing your psychological injury? In this raw exploration of Religious Trauma Syndrome, host Marcus Hart and Sex Therapist De-Andrea Blaylock-Solar dismantle the toxic lies of “purity culture” and reveal how spiritual abuse physically rewires the developing brain.